Elyse M GrassoJan 26

The joys of Boulder in winter. About midnight the wind at NCAR backed around to due west, temps rose by 20 degrees F, and the winds picked up a bit: 30 mph winds with 50 to 60 mph gusts. There were a few hours of 60 mph winds with 80mph gusts, but that seems to be slacking off. A little.

It's hard to say how much snow we got, maybe an inch, but its been blowing sideways and drifting so current depths range from nothing to 'oh, well, that's annoying, glad the plow guy came'

#weather #BoulderCO

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Hmmm. Power went out at 10:20, apparently. My solar backup kicked in, so I did not notice until I got a message from Xcel saying they are working on it. For a place that gets this windy (this is at least the 5th instance of 80+ mph winds this season) they have way too many above-ground power lines.

#BoulderCO #weather #powerOutage

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@ElyseMGrasso stay safe!
Jan 26 at 7:31pmWeb
Show threadElyse M GrassoJan 26
@anderlandbooks My rebuilt house has a sort of aerodynamic shape, with stuccoed walls and a roof that is as close to being a single piece of metal as I could manage, and it's sealed to PassiveHaus standards. As long as no one is doing something stupid with sparks upwind, I should be OK.